Factiva Persistent Link Instructions


Factiva does not automatically provide persistent links, but you can manually construct a link to an article by following the steps listed below. If you have any questions, please contact the library.

1. Search for your article. Using full article display, scroll to the end of the article and locate the accession number which will look something like this:

AFXUK00020070611e36b0028l

2. To construct the link, start with the following base URL:

http://global.factiva.com/en/du/article.asp?NAPC=S&AccessionNo=

3. Attach the accession number found in the article to the base URL:

http://global.factiva.com/en/du/article.asp?NAPC=S&AccessionNo= AFXUK00020070611e36b0028l

4. Attach BU’s authentication string to the end of this URL. Below is BU’s authentication string (all one line, no spaces):

&XSID=S00YczpZWvaMXmnNdmnMT2vMTQnMpYt5DByWcNGOTNHY

dNZUUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUEA

5. After adding the base URL and accession number, the URL will look something like this (all one line, no spaces, and yes it's very long):

http://global.factiva.com/en/du/article.asp?NAPC=S&AccessionNo=
AFXUK00020070611e36b0028l&XSID=S00YczpZWvaMXmnNdmn

MT2vMTQnMpYt5DByWcNGOTNHYdNZUUFBQUFBQUFBQUF
BQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUEA

Below is an article that has been persistently linked by following the steps outlined above:

"LG Electronics in 3-yr sponsorship deal with British soccer club Fulham"

http://global.factiva.com/en/du/article.asp?NAPC=S&AccessionNo=

AFXUK00020070611e36b0028l&XSID=S00YczpZWvaMXmnNdmn
MT2vMTQnMpYt5DByWcNGOTNHYdNZUUFBQUFBQUFBQUF
BQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUEA

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